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Born July 24, 1926 • Wuppertal • Germany
Died July 9, 2018 (aged 91) • Germany
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
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Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet athlete
Henri St. Cyr (centre), winner of the gold medal in the individual dressage event, riding around the stadium in Stockholm, where the equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics were held
Henri Saint Cyr
Swedish athlete
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Al Oerter
American athlete
Soviet gymnast Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Soviet athlete
Fraser, Dawn
Dawn Fraser
Australian swimmer
Fredriksson, Gert
Gert Fredriksson
Swedish athlete
Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina performs a floor routine, leaping with one leg extended, during the women's compulsory exercises at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Larisa Latynina
Soviet athlete
Murray Rose
Murray Rose
Australian swimmer
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Paul Elvstrøm
Danish yachtsman
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Dezsö Gyarmati
Hungarian water polo player and coach
Christian d'Oriola
Christian d’Oriola
French athlete
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Betty Cuthbert
Australian sprinter
Edoardo Mangiarotti.
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Italian fencer
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Lee Calhoun
American athlete
András Balczó
András Balczó
Hungarian athlete
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Glenn Davis
American track and field athlete
Charles Vinci
Charles Vinci
American weightlifter
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Lars-Göran Hall
Swedish athlete
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Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges
Dutch athlete
Muhammad Ali, shirtless and sweating, trains with a speed bag in a wood-paneled gym at his Pennsylvania training camp, circa 1974.
Muhammad Ali
American boxer

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